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Jul 20, 2021 · To prove the immunisation actually protected against disease, one of the female prisoners was sent to nurse a young boy with smallpox, sleeping with him every night for six weeks without becoming...
Feb 16, 2022 · In 1837, Lady Louisa Stuart lamented the heavy price her grandmother, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, had paid for introducing inoculation against smallpox into English society from Turkey: What an arduous, what a fearful, and, we may add, what a thankless enterprise it was, nobody is now in the least aware.
Mar 31, 2021 · Three hundred years ago this month, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu got her daughter inoculated against smallpox with a technique that was unfamiliar to people in Britain at the time – making her ...
Mar 5, 2019 · The girl would thrive, later marrying a British Prime Minister. Faced with this public proof of the method’s benefits, Mary’s friends began asking to have their own children inoculated.
With her own family afflicted by smallpox, Lady Mary was pleased to discover inoculation against smallpox was widespread in the Ottoman empire. The method was to introduce the smallpox virus to an uninfected person, thereby providing immunity from the disease.
Mar 8, 2021 · She told how old women kept pus from a smallpox victim in a nutshell and used a needle to create a tiny scratch in their patient's vein. She was instantly convinced of its...
Feb 1, 2018 · As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.
